Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler (68 page)

269    
“told her closest circle”:
Video interview with Catalina Gomero in
Secret History: Hitler of the Andes
, Barking Mad Productions.

269    
Horst Eichmann:
Ernesto Bohoslavsky,
Contra la Patagonia judía: La familia Eichmann y los nacionalistas Argentinos y Chilenos frente al Plan Andinia
… (Santiago de Chile, 2008, PDF online),
http://ungs.academia.edu/ebohos/Papers/86439/Contra_la_Patagonia_judia._La_familia_Eichmann_y_los_nacionalistas_argentinos_y_chilenos_frente_al_Plan_Andinia_de_1960_a_nuestros_dias_
;
Time
magazine, “Milestones,” September 1, 1961,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939852,00.html
.

270    
“they owned a property”:
Authors’ visit to Miromar, Mar Chiquita, Córdoba province, Argentina, 2007. We were shown around the hotel by one of its “guardians” from the local community; she had heard many uncorroborated rumors of the Hitlers’ presence at the hotel. See also “Hitler’s Ghost,”
Ghost Hunters International
, U.S. television series on the SyFy channel, January 2010, shot at Hotel Viena.

270    
“head of security, Col. Krueger”:
Roland, “Hotel Viena.”

270–71 
Catalina Gomero’s account:
Authors’ conversations with documentary-maker Cuini Amelio Ortiz (see note above), Rome, 2008; also video interview courtesy of Diario Ambito Financiero news group, and in the Howard and Roberts documentary,
Secret History
. See third note for Chapter 22, on page 323, for further provenance.

271    
John Walsh’s account:
Howard and Roberts,
Secret History
.

271–73 
Jorge Batinic and Mafalda Batinic’s account:
Video interview with Jorge Batinic, courtesy Ricardo D’Aloia, editorial director, Diario Ambito Financiero news group, Buenos Aires, 2008. See also
Hoy en la Noticia
, “El Pais: Hitler en Chubut,” La Plata, Argentina, July 24, 1997, pdf.diariohoy.net/1997/07/240797CU.PDF.

Chapter 22: D
EPARTURES

274    
Ante Paveli
:
IV/D/4 RSHA Gestapo report to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, February 17, 1942. See also Sr
a Trifkovi
, “The Real Genocide in Yugoslavia: Independent Croatia of 1941 Revisited,” Center for Peace in the Balkans, April 21, 2000,
http://www.balkanpeace.org/index.php?index=article&articleid=13742
.

274    
“Croats in the years after the war”:
Yossi Melman, “Tied Up in the Rat Lines,”
Haaretz
, Tel Aviv, January 17, 2006; also U.S. Army file on Ante Paveli
, report by Capt. Marion Scot,
http://www.jerusalim.org/cd/biblioteka/pavelicpapers/pavelic/ap0015.html
.

274–76 
Ancin’s testimony:
Video interview, courtesy Ricardo D’Aloia, editorial director, Diario Ambito Financiero news group, Buenos Aires, 2008. The video interviews with Catalina Gomero and Jorge Batinic (see Chapter 21) and with Hernán Ancin have never been broadcast. An unfinished program made by the newspaper group’s TV arm in the 1990s was shown by the group’s owner to his friend, Argentine president Carlos Menem. Menem requested that nothing further be done with it. See also “Man Says He Saw Hitler After War,” Agence France Presse, May 31, 1997; see
http://www.indianexpress.com/Storyold/2523/
.

276    
“Carlos Luecke”:
Michael D. Miller with Andreas Schulz and Ken McCanliss,
Leaders of the SS & German Police
, vol. 1 (San Jose, CA: R. James Bender, 2008).

277    
Hans-Ulrich Rudel:
One of only twenty-seven men to be awarded the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, Col. Rudel was unique in that a version with Golden Oak Leaves was created specifically for him.

277    
Rudel’s postwar activities:
Meskil,
Hitler’s Heirs
; also United Press, Bonn, August 28, 1953; see also
http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Stuka/Rudel/rudel.htm
; for Euphorion Books, see Anne de Courcy, “The Dazzling Beauty with a Poison Pen,”
Daily Mail
, UK, January 9, 2009,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1109382/The-dazzling-beauty-poison-pen-DIANA-MOSLEY-THE-PURSUIT-OF-LAUGHTER.html
.

278    
“Eva finally left Inalco”:
Researcher Nahuel Coca’s conversations in Buenos Aires, 2008, with Alicia Oliveira, who claimed to have met one of the Hitlers’ daughters in that city. Normally such stories can be discounted easily, but Alicia Oliveira was a senior lawyer in the Ministry of Human Rights and had been the first female ombudsman of Buenos Aires. In 1985, Ms. Oliveira was working at a nongovernmental human rights center, the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS). She was consulted on several occasions by a woman who was contemplating a divorce, apparently because of domestic violence, and who had problems with her documents because both she and her German husband were living under false identities. (Ms. Oliveira has refused to break lawyer-client confidentiality by disclosing names.) After several meetings the lawyer gained her client’s trust, and the woman—whom Ms. Oliveira judged to be sane and lucid—revealed that she was the daughter of Eva Hitler, who had apparently left Adolf at some time in the 1950s. She did not speak fondly of either parent; she said that her father was dead but her mother was still alive. She had “grown up in the Cordillera, I think in Mendoza [sic], near Neuquén [Neuquén province, not Mendoza]. What she said sounded plausible to me. I asked her to come again, but she never did.” The lawyer said that when she saw a photo of Eva Braun she was struck by the resemblance to her client.

278    
“financial dealings across the world”:
Interview with Araceli Méndez,
La Mañana del Sur
, 1996; also researcher conversations with Araceli Méndez, Buenos Aires, 2008.

278–79 
Bormann, Colotto, and Perón:
Authors’ conversations with Jorge Colotto, Buenos Aires, 2008.

279    
“luxurious Plaza Hotel”:
Argentine government document, Dirección Coordinación Federal, Estrictamente Secreto y Confidential, CF “A” No. 9976, October 5, 1960. Report received September 1953.

280    
Círculo Mílitar:
Authors’ visits to Buenos Aires, 2008; see also
http://www.circulomilitar.org/Re.htm
and
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/buenosaires/A34264.html#ixzz0wx55TjO
.

280    
“four or five different passports”:
Incidentally, the facial analysis expert Professor Alf Linney, of University College London (see note for Chapter 14, “deceived even those quite close to him,” page 308), has proved by scientific comparison that the photograph in one alleged Uruguayan passport of Martin Bormann’s from Argentina, discovered in the 1990s, cannot be his. A fingerprint on the passport has also been examined; it is not Bormann’s.

280    
“financial dealings”:
Interview with Araceli Méndez,
La Mañana del Sur
, 1996; also researcher conversations with Araceli Méndez, Buenos Aires, 2008.

281    
“placed the Führer in Colombia”:
Declassified CIA report A02592, October 3, 1955. See page 282.

281    
Rodolfo Freude:
Report of investigation by the Delegación de Associaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA), Annual Report, 1997.